Lucknow, Jan. 9 -- Cyber fraudsters posing as officials of government agencies allegedly cheated a retired professor of Rs 92 lakh by threatening him with arrest in a money laundering case, police said on Thursday.
The incident took place in the Gomtinagar Extension area of the city.
The victim, Jayant Kumar Singh, a resident of Rishita Manhattan, told police that on December 19, 2025, he received a call from a woman who claimed that his mobile SIM was being misused to send illegal messages. The caller then asked him to contact a person introduced as PRO Arun Kumar.
When Singh called the number provided, the man, identifying himself as Arun Kumar, claimed that the SIM was being misused from Mumbai and that the matter was being escalated....